Add type annotations to metadata mappings (#2259)
This patch adds type annotations to metadata mappings so that the mypy type checker can detect bugs in code. While working on the path, I also encountered these issues:
mypy raises error on detecting for implicit None returns, so I had to add return None at many places.
At a few places, @property s' are accessed using cls. mypy rightfully raises an error, so I had to add ignore to silence it for now. It appears Python 3.9+ supports class level properties so the ignores could be replaced by the proper handling when the minimum python version is raised.
Closes #2259.
Migrated from D7342 (view on Phabricator)